Re: IF frequency

On 28 Jan 2006 11:03:06 -0800, "thejim" <papageorgiou40@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>In an avionics book i read that the IF of a reiceiver is 29.05 Mhz.
>How does that figure come out?
>Does it come out by the difference between the incoming radio signal
>and the Local oscillator frequency?
>Am i saying it correctly?

I think I would put it another way around: The designer of the radio
chose to use 29.05 MHz as the IF, and designed the IF amplifiers to
pass that frequency. The frequency that the receiver will receive is
that IF frequency plus (or minus) the local oscillator frequency.



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